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An elevated view of the Nimble Storage campus in north San Jose. Hewlett Packard Enterprises will shift its headquarters to Santa Clara, part of an exit from Palo Alto that will bring hundreds of jobs to San Jose, and workers to Milpitas, the tech giant said Thursday.

SAN JOSE — Hewlett Packard Enterprise will shift its headquarters to Santa Clara, part of an exit from Palo Alto that also will bring hundreds of jobs to San Jose and Milpitas, the tech giant said Thursday.

The company is moving out of its head offices in Palo Alto and will establish a new headquarters at 3333 Scott Blvd. in Santa Clara, where Aruba Networks, a company that HPE has bought, now has its head offices.

HPE is planning a similar move into north San Jose, where Nimble Storage, a firm that HPE has purchased, maintains headquarters at 211 River Oaks Parkway.

And HPE plans to move to offices occupied by SGI at 900 N. McCarthy Blvd. in Milpitas.

“Hewlett Packard has served as a major force in driving the innovation that put Silicon Valley on the map, and we are pleased that they have decided to bring hundreds of employees to San Jose,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said Thursday.

For San Jose, the arrival next year of some of HPE’s operations is a feather in the cap for a city that has gained momentum in landing major tech players over the last few years, including Apple and Microsoft. Google also is laying the groundwork for developing a transit-oriented village where 15,000 to 20,000 Google employees would work in downtown San Jose.

The precise number of HPE workers who would move to north San Jose wasn’t disclosed. However, a person familiar with the HPE plans said the number will be at least 200 employees.

“These buildings are all newer facilities,” said Kate Holderness, an HPE spokeswoman. “The Aruba headquarters was just built this year, and it’s brand new. This move is a way to bring employees together into newer locations.”

The company also didn’t reveal the number of employees who would be vacating the Palo Alto site.

HPE is vacating one of the older buildings that were part of the early days of Hewlett-Packard, one of the legendary hardware and software giants of Silicon Valley: a property at 3000 Hanover St. HPE owns the structure at 3000 Hanover, but is leasing the ground beneath it from Stanford University, as was the case for the properties in Stanford Industrial Park.

“We plan to sell the Palo Alto property,” Holderness said.

The timing for the relocation and shift to the three new offices isn’t yet set in stone, but Holderness said, “The goal is to complete the move by the end of October 2018.”